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MACHINE FOR PRINTING LEAVES FOR BOOKS.

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GUSTAV A. WALSTEAD AND SIVERT MOE, OF'CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CHINE FOR PRINTING LEAVES FOR BOOKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

mama Doc. 31, 1007.

Application filed January 8. 1905. Serial 10.339.863-

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that we, (icsrav A. Val.- s'rnan and Sn'sn'r .\[m,citizcnsofthe United States, and residentsof Chicago, (look county,

Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinesfor Printing Leaves for Books; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accom anying drawings and to the letters of re drencemarked thereon which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to machines for )rinting leaves for books, andmore particuarly to a machine adapted to print the leaves of such booksas sales memoranda books and the like from which the salesman deliversto the purchaser a check, a duplicate of which is forwarded to theaccounting ollice.

I'leretofore books of the class described have usually been constructedby first printing, and cutting the leaves to the desired size on onemachine, then usually foldin r the sheets to afl'ord the stubs, afterwhich the leaves are sorted and bound.

. The object of this invention is to provide a printed roll of paper ofthe class described and also a machine adapted to print from a roll ofpa er a pluralit of du licate pages with the mes running lbngitudinallyof the stri perforate the same to afford the check ant stub, then foldinthe sheet longitudinally to bring the dup icate checks together and asin ro ing the printed and ion itudi- 85. nally olded strip into acompact roll or further use.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter. described and morefull pointed out and defined in the a ended c aims.

gure 1 isa side eleva- Fi 2 is a similar view taken on the driving siethereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan yiew of the same, partl bro en. Fig. is afront end Fig. 5 is a front face view of the folder- Fig. 6 1s a sideelevation of the same. Fig. 7 is a transverse section. Fig. 8 is anenlar ed. detail of one form of con ling between t e roll shaft for thepaper to wit the driving mechanism therefor. ig

9. is an enlarged sectional detail of one of the perforating rolls..Fig. 10 is an enlarged Tl igmentarydetail of the adjustable numberingwheel and the means for securing the 66 samein place.-- Fig. 11 is asection tal en longitudinally of the shaft of the numbering wheel. Fig.12 is an enlarged fragmentary top plan view of the drive for thenumbering wheel. Fig. 13 is an enlarged detail in side elevation of themechanism for adjusting the drive of the receiving roll to the speed ofthe machine,

As shown in said drawings: A printing press is used having a framecomprising side frame members all'ording supporting legs A, A, the topframe members a. of the machine and the central bearing standard a andrigidly secured together by means of transverse members A, A" in theusual or any desired manner. Journaled on said frame are rolls B. and Band B which are in approximately the same plane and in peripheralcontact as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 and of which the roll B is the main)rinting roll and which bears against the roll it on the o )osite sidefrom the roll B". Said rolls Il--- are each slidably engaged in the topin the frame bv means of sliding bearings b--b' against which )resses aspring b'fi the tension of which can be varied by means of a screw shaftb, thereby holding said rolls in positive but yielding engagement withthe central roll .13. Carried upon a bracket (1, integral with each ofsaid legs A is the paper roll C adapted to support a roll of paper ofany desired size, of which the end of the strip leads forwardly around asmall roll 0 beneath the roll B and upwardly between the rolls B and Bthen downwardly between the rolls B and B and is enga ed against theroll B by alower roll 0' whic may also be a rinting roll should it bedesired'to print hot 1 sides the stri then forwa'rdl through theperforatin ant folding mec anism. Said rolls are triven at a uniformperipheral rate of speed b means of the driving pulley b on the shaft onwhich on the other side the frame is secured a inion b whichintern'ieshes with the gear iii which drives the roll B. A gear b"ongaged on the shaft of the roll B on the op )0- sit side of the framefrom the gear I) mes ms with the gears b and b, the. latter of whichintermeshes with a gear I)" which drives the lower printing roll 0'.

A The inking mechanism may be of any desired kind and is omitted fromthe drawings inasmuch as an of the usual inking means will sullice. Ining means are )rovided at the rear of the printing roll 1 which asshown, comprises an ink receptacle E su ported on brackets nrigullvsecured to t to frame and upon which any desired number of {'f I udistributing rollers e'-e*-e'--cc-e' are I ournaled which are in ph'sical contact with" each other and the first o 'hich receives the inkfrom an aperture in the ink trough or n.- ceptacle E, and the last ofwhich delivers and spreads the ink on the rinting roll B. s

Journaled upon brac 'ets a which pro'ect centrally above the side framemembers is a transverse shaft 1) on the outer end of which is a gear dwhich meshes with the gear b".

ve said shaft said brackets is a transverse bar I) upon which is slidabler aged a bracket arm' I) the head d of which is held in adjustedpositlon on said ghar;by means of a set screw 11. Said braeketihead alsoengages a gear wheel d feathered on and in dotted lines in Fig. 12 andwhich meshes with' 'com lemental gears d and d", ournaled on said racketarm. Said gear d" is r1 'dly secured on the same shaft d with a num ermgwheel D which, as shown, is removablysecured on the shaft (1 by means ofoppositel disposed ,ke 's d" and also by means 0 the detents two ofwhich are shown seated in slots in the end of the shaft. and providedwith an outwardly extended head adapted to extend throu h said wheel andprovided with inwardly directed shoulders which bear against the face ofthe wheel. A s rin cl cnga es between said heads and h0l( s t e shoulers in engaging position. Said numbering wheel D has arran ed on itsperiphery atequal distances apart l at faces, each adapted to afford aflat ty e face (I each marked with the same numera or character for thepurpose of paging each page of a roll with the impression o the samecharacter or number, and which hear u on the sheet as the same passesover the rol er B as shown in Fig. 3. Carried on the outer end of saidbracket D is an inking receptacle E provided with an aperture thereinadapted to deliver ink to distributing rollers e--e-e-e and e" which arejournaled on stud shafts on said arm and are in physical contact and thelast of which is in position to be engaged by the ty 0 faces onnumbering whee D, thereby the same and being rotated thereby intopodtion to afford a fresh inking face for the next type thereon as thenumbering wheel revolves.

' In advance of the roll 13 are the perforatr ing and foldingmechanisms. Said perforati mechanism as shown, comprises a lower roFover which the paper passes and an upper shaft F upon which are securedthe toothed wheels f, as shown in Figs. 3 and 9 and which are eachad'ustably engaged upon said shaft by meanso set screws. Saidperforating wheels re so positioned with relation to he roll F as topress the apcr down .therec oerforating the same in on itudinal lines atbe proper distances from t 10 edges 66 to aifc t tearing line betweenthe stub and and rigidly secured upon said shaft as shown in Fig. 4'

amass body of the page and between the page bod and du licatc cheek.Said roll F and shaft F are rivcn from intermeshiug gears f and f,driven from the train of gcarsf and f. the former of which intermeshcswith the gear I)" as shown in Fig. 2.

In advance of the )erforating means are guide rolls G and G )etweerrwhichthe paper passes to the folding mechanism and whici are also drivenat equal periiheral speed by intermeshing gears g and g, t m lattor ofwhich meshes with the gear f. Secured at the front of the frame by meansof a transverse bar fl is the folding guide U which dc )ends from saidbar and is rovided with undcrturned edges terminating at a point at thelower end of the guide as shown in Fig. 4 and which is directedcentrally between the guide rollers 11-, h which are journaled at aright angle with the rolls before described and uion a suitable base It"in front of the mac line. The pa )cr is drawn downwardly in a doublefold between said rolls and carried at a right angle from the press tothe receiving mandrel l at a uniform rate of speed. Said receivinmandrel is removably journaled in suita )lc bearings at the upper endsof an upright frame, comprising the side members 't'i' u )0" the latterof which in axial alinement with the bearings of the mandrel, isjournaled a frictional disk I, the shaft 1'? of which extends throughinto the bearing and is shaped to all'ord a clutch with thccomplcnu-ntally formed adjacent end of the shaft or mandrel I.

,Journaled upon a bracket arm h rigidly secured on the frame above theshaft F is the ivoted arm I near the outer end of whic i is a laterallyand downwardly directed arm I" at the extremity of which is adjust- 10bably journaled a roller 11 which tracks upon the mandrel or the paperwound thereon as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 and is secured to said arm bymeans of a slotted head i carried on the arm, through which extends a110 stem '5 of the caster or roller to admit of adjusting the relationof the two parts. At the outer end of the arm I is provided a bearing 1"in which is journaled a shaft i" on one end of which is secured agrooved pulley i and 115 on the other end of which is rigidly secured afriction disk i". This disk, as shown, is provided with a band of rubberor other suitable material in its periphery which bears against the faceof the friction disk I. As shown, a 120 grooved pulley f is rovided onthe extremity of the shaft which projects heneath the pivot for said armI and a cable, belt, chain or other flexible connection i" is trainedabout the some and about the 125 grooved pulleys i" and i on said arm 1,whereby the friction disk i" is rotated.

The operation is as follows: The pa er secured upon a roll C at the rearend 0 t to machine is fed therethrough by the draft of the 130 I i rollsthereon andis verael of=the sheet to afford asshown, in

2 ends, a plurality of transverse narrow printed comprising stubs, checkand 'a duplicate check each of which 18 numbered or paged by thenumbering-wheel characteristic for that strip" as the sheet the passesbeneath the same. e perforating wheels are adjusted to provideperforations longitudinally of the stri fed through the press buttransversely o the rinted pages thereon and are ad'usted av iistanceapart to afford a tearing hne to enable-the duplionto to be torn fromthe check and the check to be torn from the stub when the transnc tionis consummated for which the check is used. Beyond the rforating wheelsthe guide rolls G and G irect the paper over the folding ide H fromwhence t ie nper is drawn ownwardly between the guide rolls 7 and hwhich press the two folded sides together and the end thereof is carriedlaterally and engaged in an suitable manner u n the removable man relL'which can be li ted from the bearings carried on the uprights 1' andi. Said mandrel being engaged by the shaft of the friction disk I anddriven thereby rolls theprinted, perforated and folded strips into acompact roll which, when is completed, may be removed for binding andcutting into books. Obviously, if the speed of the friction disk I whereuniform t e aper would be wound on the mandrel muc more rapidly when theroll approached completion and'for the purpose of equalizing ripheralspeed of the roll, the pivoted I brac et arms I is provided upon whichthe friction disk i" is dually moved radially outward on the dis I asthe roll increases in size. This is accom lished by the increasing sizeof the roll ifting the roller t V which tracks upon the paper and uponwhicli i the outer end of the arm is supported. In consequence, as theroll increases in diameter a proportionate upward movement of thefrictiona contact between said 1 disk is produced whereby the peripheralspeed of the paper roll is maintained constant. After the sheet or strihas been fully printed, perforated, folde and rolled, the completed rollis lifted with itsmandrel from the machine andv a new mandrelsubstituted therefor and the operation proceeds as before.

The pages from the printed rolls are bound and cut y a machine. formingthe subiect matter of another, 'bookmaking machine for which applicationfor patent, executed by us is file of even date herewith.

Obviously, many details of construction ma be varied in the printingpress proper an means for operating the same and ob .viously .the stripmay be printed upon one or both sides'as preferred, and one or morenumbering whee s employed supported either above or beneath the rollsdependent upon which side the paper it is desired to imprint thenumbers. Said numbering wheels may be differently constructed andoperated than herein shown and described or constructed in any suitablemanner to enable the successive pages or printed leaves for each stripto bear the same numeral. One roll thus is a propriated entirely to page1 of a number oi the book, another to page .2 and thethird to )age 3, inthis manner, providing as many re] s as there are to be pages in thebook to be constructed.

Obviously, mechanical details may be varied to produce a printed roll,such as herein descri )ed without departing from the principles of myinvention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a device of the class described the combination with printing andnumbering mechanisms of means for making a lurality of lines ofierforations longitudinal y of the paper, mechanism for folding thepaper longitudinally thereof, a mandrel adapted to reccive said strip, ashaft rigidly engaged to the frame and projecting outwardly therefrom,means journaled on its outer end whereby said mandrel is rotated an armrigidly engaged to said shaft, a roller on the end of said shaft restingon said mandrel and adapted to regulate the velocitv of the mandrel.

2. In a device of the class described the combination with a pluralityof rolls adapted to feed a stri of paper therethrough, of means for peoratingsaid strip longitudinally thereof, means for foldin the striplongitudinally a mandrel adapter to receive the folded strip thereon ina roll a friction a'icel on the mandrel, a friction wheel pivoted on theside of the machine and adapted to contact therewith and means for antomatically adjusting said wheels.

3. In a machine of the class described the combination with a pluralityof rolls adapted to conve a strip t erethrougllg of rinting means atjustably supported a ve t 0 rolls, means adapted to perforate the striplongitudinally thereof, a downwardly tapering guide, a pair of coactingrolls beneath the same adapted to fold the strip longitudinally amandrel adapted to receive the folded 116 strip and automaticallyoperating means acting to vary the s ed of the mandrel to give a uniformperi ieral speed.

4. In a device 0 the class described the combination with a frame, of aplurality of 'rolls journaled thereon, means for driving combinationwith means for printing and folding a strip longitudinally thereof, of amandrel adapted to have said strip rolled thereon, a friction drive forsaid mandrel means pivotall sup orting said drive and means 0 rate by t1e growth of the roll to adjust t 1e speed of said mandrel.

6. In a device of the class described the combination with a frame ofprinting mechanisms thereon, folding mechanism on said frame adapted tofold a strip longitudinally, a mandrel on which the folded strip iswound, a driven friction disk thereon, a pivotally supported frictiondisk contacting with the driven friction disk, means for rotating saiddisks and means for automatically elevating said pivotally sup orteddisk to vary the I point of contact 0 said disks as the strip is actingto vary the speed of the mandrel.

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7. In a device of the class described the combination with a frame ofmeans ads ted to print and perforate, a strip, means an apt-' ed to foldthe strip longitudinally and pivotally supported variable speedcontrolling means acting to wind said strip into a roll.

8. A printing machine for rinting a strip of paper from a roll to provie a lurality of duplicate narrow pages extending transversely of thestrip, means impressing the same p character upon each age, a ide fOffilthe strip longitudinallyFa manel upon w 'ch sair folded stri isrolled ina permanent roll, an arm pivoter on the machine, a friction disk thereonadapted to drive the mandrel and means on 881d arms 9, A machine for thecified,

UIPOSO- B 7 comprising printing, nnm ering an perforating mechanisms,means adapted to old a erases printed and perforated striplongitudinally, a mandrel upon which -the printed strip is adapted to bewound, a disk ri 'dly engaged to said mandrel, a shaft pivota y engageto said machine, a disk journaled on the end of said shaft adapted tofrictional] engage the friction disk on the mandrel am an arm rigidly'engaged to the shaft and provided with a rol er on one end adapted tovary the speed of the mandrel.

10. In a machine of the class described the combination with printingmeans adapted to print a strip of paper to afford transversely extendingclosely arranged pages of means folding the same centrally andlongitudinally, a mandrel upon which the aper is adapted to be rolled,means driving t 10 same, a swinging arm supporting the driving means ammeans thereon acting to maintain uniform peripheral speed for said roll.

11. In a machine of the class described the combination with printingmeans adapted to print a strip of paper to afford transversely extendinclosely arranged pages of means folding t e same centrally andlongitudinally, a mandrel u on which the paper is ada ted to be rolled afriction disk drivin sai roll, an arm supported upon the roll 0 pa r, adriving friction disk carried thereon apsk contacting with the firstnamed friction In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed ournames in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV A. WALSTEAD. SIVERT MOE.

Witnesses:

W, W. Wrrrmsmmr H. S-

